Terms to know
Terms
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- republic
- A goverment where citizens rule through elected representatives
- censors
- elected every 5 years, judge moral behavior
- plebeian
- of the common people of ancient Rome
- phalanx
- a military formation used by the Greeks and Romans that depended on the unity of all soldiers
- veto
- a vote that blocks a decision
- tribunes
- representatives of lower class (plebians)
- assembly of centuries
- voting population of senate, comprised of citizens over the age of 18
- senate
- a group of 300 men elected to govern rome in the roman republic
- citizen
- A member of a city, state, or country.
- 12 tables
- the earliest Roman code of laws
- dictator
- an absolute ruler.
- consul
- one of two officials who led the government in the ancient Roman republic
- patrician
- ruling class of ancient Rome
- SRQR
- Senatus Populusque Romanus- the senate and the Roman people
- praetor
- "judge" criminal justice, international law
- legion
- a division of the Roman army, usually comprising 3,000 to 6,000 soldiers; a military or semimilitary unit